Author's Note

I've wanted to do a story where Rachel plays Wendla and Jesse plays Melchior in Spring Awakening for the longest time, even though I'm not necessarily the biggest St. Berry fan and I know it's been done before by many authors before me. However, I'm very disappointed in the way Finchel is going on the show now, especially what it's making Rachel out to be, so I figured now is a good time to try this out. I can't promise it'll turn out to be a St. Berry fic, and I can't promise it'll turn out to be a Finchel fic – I can be swayed either way as of late. Also, my stories Close Enough To Normal and Crazy Is Perfect – which you should totally check out! – are centered around Rachel on Broadway, so, as much as I love the SA Original Broadway Cast, I'm using the Totally Trucked Cast (First National Tour Cast) in this fic and putting Rachel and Jesse as Wendla and Melchior on tour! This doesn't mean at all that I'll be slowing down Crazy Is Perfect or Once Upon A Time; they are both still up and running! I hope you like it. Thanks and enjoy.

Full Summary

Rachel leaves McKinley early in her senior year to go on tour with the First National Tour Cast of Spring Awakening. But what happens when a familiar face gets cast as the Melchior to her Wendla? Follow Rachel, Jesse, and the cast on their crazy adventures, battles with getting in their schoolwork, bus rides to new places, and relationship roller-coasters. The kids at McKinley keep up with their former New Directions co-caption by watching their YouTube videos, Totally Trucked, but will the distance make Finn want Rachel back, or drive them farther apart? What about Jesse? Well, just like Rachel said, even through heartbreak or heart attack, the show must go on.

Couples

Maybe Finchel, maybe St. Berry (it's up to you guys to sway me on this one!), Klaine, Brittana, Quick, Wemma, and more may come in later.

Members of the Totally Trucked Cast

Rachel Berry (Wendla Bergmann)

Jesse St. James (Melchior Gabor)

Blake Bashoff (Moritz Steifel)

Steffi D (Ilse Neumann)

Henry Stram (Adult Men)

Angela Reed (Adult Women)

Andy Mientus (Hanschen)

Matt Shingledecker (Georg)

Sarah Hunt (Martha)

Ben Moss (Ernst)

Anthony Lee Medina (Otto)

Gabrielle Garza (Anna)

Kimiko Glenn (Thea)

Prolog

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!

That was all Rachel could think of or hear anyone say all day. Just one last period. Just one last class period, and then she was free. Free, that is, to start her destiny. She just had to wait until her history class was over, and then she would be getting in her car, and driving to the location where she and her new cast mates would meet up for the first time. After they accounted for everyone, they'd get on a bus, and tour all around the country in the first National Tour of one of her favorite Broadway shows, Spring Awakening.

Of course, landing the female lead role of Wendla was not an easy task – she had to miss so much school to drive pretty much all across the country for auditioning, and work shopping, and rehearsals, but it was worth it. It was so, so worth it when she got that call back, telling her that she had gotten the part. Since Spring Awakening on Broadway was just ending at that time, she went into New York with her then-boyfriend, Finn Hudson, and saw the closing cast. Of course, that Wendla was great, but Rachel had already excepted the fact that no one could come close to the original Wendla, played by Lea Michele.

Then again…a girl can dream, can't she?

That last history period felt like forever and a half. Honestly, Rachel had tuned out the teacher altogether – for all she knew, Mr. Gallagher was talking about Germany in the year 1891. That's the time and place Spring Awakening was set in, of course. All she could think about was her new cast, and getting to play that role – wow. Talk about a dream come true. Across the history room, she could a glance at Finn, who was looking at her. Earlier in the week, she had to tell Finn that they should see other people. Long distance would be nearly impossible on tour. If he was as crushed as Rachel was, he certainly didn't show it…but she wasn't going to think about that right now. She would have a new man in her life pretty soon, and his name would be Melchior Gabor…

Finally, the bell rang. Rachel sprang out of her seat, collected her things, and got to the main office as fast as she could. She had to – rather quickly – fill out papers that allowed her to finish out the rest of her senior year online. Leaving high school early was a small price to pay for play Wendla Bergmann.

"Uh…hey."

She turned around to see Finn there.

"Hey," she responded.

"So, uh…you're really leaving, aren't you?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I…I am."

"Oh…" he shuffled his feet. "Well, um…good luck. Or, uh, break a leg. I'll call you sometimes, you know, if you want…"

"Yeah, uh, I'd like that…" she said. "And I'll call you, too. We should keep in touch."

"Yeah. We should."

They hugged, awkwardly, and with that, Rachel left McKinley High School for good.

It was time to start her destiny.